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facture of hard porcelain, and a series of sample pieces were made 

 for the New Orleans Exhibition. The quality and designs of these 

 trial pieces were creditable, and the experiment has shown that 

 this factory is capable of producing true porcelain of a high order. 

 One of the New Orleans pieces, a pitcher of thin semi-transparent 

 body, was also made in white earthenware, glazed and gilded, the 

 latter of which is reproduced in Fig. 25. It is in the shape of a can- 

 teen, the mouth representing the head of a Continental soldier. The 

 raised designs are flesh-colored, on a solid gold ground. The three- 

 cornered hat is black. Mr. Scott Callowhill, an English artist of 

 ability, was employed for a while in modeling and painting, but 

 recently left, to accept a position with the Providential Tile Works 

 of Trenton. 



At the beginning of the 

 present year a change was 

 made in the proprietor- 

 ship, and a new company 

 has been incorporated, un- 

 der the title of the Griff en 

 China Company, which 

 will hereafter make a spe- 

 cialty of fine translucent 

 French china, in plain 

 white table services. The 

 company will also, at an 

 early day, manufacture 

 fancy tiles, under the di- 

 rection of Mr. A, D. Vitan, 

 a practical French potter, 

 formerly at Greenpoint, 

 Long Island. This gentle- 

 man has just perfected 

 an improved machine for 

 manufacturing art tiles, 

 and another for making 

 plates. 



The Borroughs and 

 Mountford Company com- 

 menced business in Tren- 

 ton in 1879, in what was 

 formerly the Eagle Pottery. Their specialties are vitrilied, thin, 

 and hotel china, and underglaze printing on pottery and por- 

 celain. The mechanical application of decorations is the distin- 

 guishing characteristic of one line of their art potteries, which, 

 while closely imitating the more expensive methods of hand-paint- 

 ing, enables them to produce highly artistic effects at a greatly re- 



FlCi. 23. LAKliK VaSK rnRYSANTIlKMUM DECORATION. 



Willets Manufacturing Company. 



